Man stuck in Kuwait appeals for repatriation to attend father’s rites
TNN | Jun 4, 2020, 04.04 AM IST
Madurai: A 36-year-old Melur man, stuck in Kuwait, has urged the state and central governments to take steps to bring him to attend the 16th day ritual of his father, who was hacked to death on Monday. The man, A Raj Kumar, who works as a driver with a private transport company in Kuwait, watched his father’s final rites over phone.
Kumar along with a few hundred employees are staying in a facility provided by the company. Employer has stopped salary due to lockdown and only a part is being paid to take care of their expenses.
There are at least 400 Tamils working in the company and are staying in various locations. While a section of them wants to return home, others want to stay there.
“Although Indian embassy officials from Kuwait talk to me regulalrly over phone, I have not been informed about evacuation so far. Officials from state and central governments should initiate action to enable me to reach my native place,” Kumar said.
Kumar’s father, N Alagappan, 55, from Thumbaipatti near Melur, was hacked to death by a fellow villager Annadurai, when he tried to save his neighbour Murugan.
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